Ray Kelly

An (Early) Handicapping Of Some Possible Candidates For The Next NYPD Commissioner

Democratic primary winner Bill de Blasio met last Wednesday with Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, in what was probably a pretty interesting conversation. The meeting was scheduled for three hours, and said to be a primer on law enforcement issues that the next mayor may confront. (Republican prima ... More >>

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly: Mayoral Candidates Don't Understand Terrorists' "Enduring Obsession With New York"

The new mayor, whoever he or she may be, isn't even the mayor yet, but that hasn't stopped NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly from accusing that person of being soft on terrorism. In a speech before the Association For a Better New York's Council on Foreign Relations, he complained that none of the candida ... More >>

On Meet The Press, Trayvon Martin's Mother Sybrina Fulton Denounces Stop and Frisk, and Ray Kelly Calls It "Preventative"

On Sunday's Meet The Press, we got to hear about stop and frisk from all angles, starting with Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, who made it clear his feelings are extremely bruised by U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin appointing an independent monitor to make sure the NYPD doesn't trample anyone's ... More >>

Two Recent Police Academy Grads Shoot and Kill a 14-Year-Old in the Bronx

Early Sunday morning two police officers, both of whom completed their training just last month, shot and killed a 14-year-old boy in south Bronx. The killing is a direct result of the Operation Impact, Commissioner Ray Kelly's policy of deploying the department's greenest members to the most crime- ... More >>

Listen, Guys, Ray Kelly Is Not Running for Mayor

Ten years in command of one of the world's largest city law enforcement agencies. A solid Bloomberg ally, managing the mayor's budget cutbacks after 9/11 changed the way the NYPD does business. A fantasy for New York Republicans, the New York Post editorial page, and even fellow Voice scribe Graham ... More >>

Ray Kelly's Secret Mayoral Poll?

As to the question of whether Ray Kelly is running for mayor, only silence emanated from One Police Plaza yesterday. But one of our spies in Brooklyn got an extremely telling call last night from a pollster who asked a series of questions clearly targeted at taking the pulse of the electorate about ... More >>

Ray Kelly, Police Commissioner, Could Make Late Entry Into Mayoral Race? That's the Chatter

Could Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly be considering a dramatic late entry into the mayoral race? With 19 days to go before the campaign finance certification deadline, the chatter that the 71-year-old commissioner will run to replace Mayor Bloomberg reached a renewed crescendo yesterday, insiders ... More >>

Mayor Bloomberg on Post-Boston Security: "You're Never Going to Know Where All Our Cameras Are"

Mayor Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly delivered a press conference at City Hall this afternoon, revealing information about the Boston bombers' plans to come to New York City. Upon earlier information and belief, Dzhokar Tsarnaev said he had planned to come to New York to "party," but Bl ... More >>

Eric Adams, State Senator, Testifies Police Commissioner Told Him He Wants to "Instill Fear" Into Young Blacks and Hispanics

State Sen. Eric Adams, a retired NYPD captain, testified yesterday that Police Commissioner Ray Kelly told him that he ordered his commanders to "target young black and hispanic men to instill fear in them that any time they leave their homes they could be targeted by police." Adams, often a critic ... More >>

Ray Kelly Sounds Off On Low Crime Without Mentioning 'Stop & Frisk' Once

Word of life advice: if you ignore something, that doesn't mean it will go away. Yesterday morning, NYPD commish Ray Kelly delivered his 'State of the NYPD' address at the Waldorf Astoria. The police chief, riding high off a recent poll that showed his approval ratings at the highest ever for someo ... More >>

Poll: New Yorkers Heart Police Commissioner

Everybody loves Raymond. A Quinnipiac University survey of 1,332 residents of New York City made public today gives the commissioner a record high 75% approval rating. This is Kelly's highest rating to date. A large majority of voters--across gender, race and party lines--would prefer that Ray Kel ... More >>

Ray Kelly Goes Gangbusters: NYPD to Double Size of Anti-Gang Unit; Target Facebook Thugs

New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly will give a speech later today in which he will announce his plans to double the size of the NYPD's anti-gang unit to combat the escalating problem of gang violence in the city.Kelly is calling the plan "Operation Crew Cut," which will bring the number of ... More >>

Ray Kelly, Police Commissioner, Issues New Command Guide on Stop and Frisk

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly has issued a new "command level instructor's guide" to performing stop and frisks, in his latest move to blunt criticism of the strategy. The news here is that this new training has been given to police officers in every command, rather than only academy cadets, as ... More >>

The Next Mayor: An NYPD Still Outside the Law?

Ray Kelly, Police Commissioner, Criticizes Lack of Outcry Over Violence

You have to hand it to Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly for taking on all comers over stop and frisk and the recent spate of violence, which led to 77 people shot in a week and 16 murders over the July 4 holiday. On Monday, and again yesterday, Kelly railed against what he sees as apathy over the ... More >>

Ray Kelly Thinks We'll Just Give Him Our Illegal Fireworks. Fat Chance, Pal -- Here's How To Not Get In Trouble

NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, in an effort to prevent injuries (read: protect you from yourself) while New Yorkers are celebrating the upcoming Fourth of July holiday, wants you to just hand over any illegal fireworks you plan to blow off come Wednesday.We've got news for Ray Kelly: if he wants our f ... More >>

PBA: Blame NYPD For Ticket Quotas; Cops Unfairly Targeted by Internal Affairs

In an unusual public push-back at Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, the city's police officers union ran an ad in today's Daily News, attacking the department for pressuring officers to hit quotas and then punishing them if their tickets are tossed from traffic court. "Don't blame the cop," the Patrol ... More >>

Will Mayor Ray Kelly Watch Over Us?

Does the commish think he can stop-and-frisk the public schools into shape?

More Mayoral Hopefuls Weigh in on the Ray Kelly Rumors: He Has a Great Record!

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer said today that if the Ray Kelly running for mayor rumors turn out to be true, the dynamics of the mayoral race would certainly change. And some candidates gearing up for their campaigns are probably afraid of that, Stringer, an expected contender himself, ... More >>

Mayoral Hopefuls on Possible Mayoral Bid of Ray Kelly: He's a Good Police Commissioner

Asked today about rumors that Police Commissioner Ray Kelly might be interested in running for mayor in 2013, several mayoral hopefuls chimed in -- but would only say that he's good at his current job. The New York Post reported today that a top state Republican is pushing Kelly to run for mayor a ... More >>

Richard Breunich, JP Morgan Executive, Has Carte Blanche At NYPD Headquarters

A top executive at the investment bank JP Morgan Chase has special access to police headquarters, the Voice has learned. The mystery is why. Most of us regular folks have to go through a ridiculous security screening process just to get into 1 Police Plaza (a public building, by the way), including ... More >>

Ray Kelly Warns Cops: Look Out For Those Handcuff Key Bracelets

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly is warning cops about rope bracelets containing hidden handcuff keys, according to an internal NYPD memo obtained by the Voice. Kelly sent out photos of the product to all commands earlier this week. The key is plastic, so it won't set off metal detectors. He says pris ... More >>

The Constitution Versus Ray Kelly

A new coalition is ready to take its fight to the commissioner

New Yorkers Think Ray Kelly Is a Great Guy, Like to Shame One Another Publicly: Poll

New Yorkers think that Ray Kelly is just swell and really like to embarrass one another, according to a new poll. Indeed, the stats suggest that many city-dwellers are a strange bunch. Even though Kelly appeared in an Islamophobic vid used for cop training, most New Yorkers don't think the NYPD is ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg: Police Commissioner Ray Kelly Should Not Step Down

Bombarded by questions about the controversies (yes, plural) developing around Ray Kelly, Mayor Mike Bloomberg told reporters this afternoon that the police commissioner should not step down. In case you missed it, news surfaced this week that the New York Police Department showed around 1,500 off ... More >>

Ray Kelly, Spokesman Browne On Hot Seat In Anti-Islam Movie Fallout

​In more fallout from "film gate"--the NYPD's decision to show a controversial anti-Islam film to cops at an anti-terror training center--Mayor Bloomberg says it showed "terrible judgment," and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly admitted he gave an interview to the filmmakers, and called it a mista ... More >>

Ray Kelly, Police Commissioner, Has to Remind Cops to Take Criminal Complaints

More than a year after revelations in this newspaper and others media outlets about police under-reporting of crime complaints, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has taken the unusual step of actually reminding cops that they can't ignore civilians who want to report a crime. A department order issued ... More >>

Cops Are Arresting Fewer Folks for Tiny Amounts of Weed

This would count as "illegal."​Back in September Police Commissioner Ray Kelly issued an internal order telling cops to stop arresting people for minuscule amounts of pot found in their pockets or in bags (i.e., not in public view). This was in part due to claims of wrongful arrests and the st ... More >>

Video of Ray Kelly's Columbia Heckling

Remember how Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was heckled by Occupy protesters at Columbia this week? There's now video of the incident online, via Democracy Now! reporter Ryan Devereaux.

Ray Kelly Heckled at Columbia Class by Protesters

Things seem to have gone off the rails in former mayor David Dinkins's urban public policy class at Columbia tonight, where Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was the visiting guest along with federal judge George Daniels and Manhattan D.A. Cy Vance Jr. According to Bwog, Kelly was speaking when student ... More >>

Ray Kelly's Gulag

Get on the NYPD commissioner's secret list, and you're going nowhere

Ray Kelly, Police Commissioner, Under Fire Over Corruption Cases

​Over the past few weeks, one scandal after another has hit the police department, making things increasingly uncomfortable for Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and his top advisors, and the accretion of negative news has some people arguing for change in the department's leadership. Such a rema ... More >>

Ray Kelly Puts NYPD Quota Demands in Writing; Rank And File Not Happy [Updated]

​Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has issued an intriguing new order to the NYPD which appears to finally put the unwritten quota policy into writing, adds yet another layer of paperwork to the street cop's job, and brings department micromanaging to a new level of insanity. Titled "Police Offic ... More >>

Ray Kelly Versus the First Amendment--On My Street

Spinning Out of Control

Paul Browne's mouth finally starts getting him into trouble

Ray Kelly: NYPD 'Will Look' Into Occupy Wall Street Pepper-Spraying

Pressure has been mounting for the NYPD to do something about the pepper-spraying of peaceful Occupy Wall Street protesters on Saturday. If you haven't seen it yet, there's video above (and also a new one out today) of a cop who's since been identified as Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna pepper-sp ... More >>

Ethan Nadelmann of the Drug Policy Alliance Responds to the Big NYPD Marijuana News

Drug Policy Alliance​Ethan Nadelmann is the founder and Executive Director of the Drug Policy Alliance. Interviews with DPA staff and data from DPA reports were used through out this week's Voice feature, "White Mayor's Burden." We spoke with Nadelmann after the stunning news from WNYC that t ... More >>

NYPD Tells the Voice Marijuana Order Will Apply to All Police, Not Just "Uniformed" Cops

Rickard Blommengren​Police Commissioner Ray Kelly's memo ordering the NYPD to stop arresting people for low level marijuana possession not in plain view will apply to "all police officers," not just "uniformed members of the service," the Voice has learned. When WNYC broke the story about Ke ... More >>

Ray Kelly Finally Does the Right Thing with Weed Arrests

​After a decade of aggressively using stop and frisks to produce hundreds of thousands of bogus marijuana arrests, Commissioner Ray Kelly seems to have belatedly reversed course, judging from an internal memo.

Ray Kelly: NYPD Will Eye New Midtown Traffic Cameras

​Privacy? That's so 20th Century. "We certainly monitor the traffic cameras," Police Commissioner Ray Kelly told me today, when I asked him about the 32 video cameras and E-ZPass readers placed throughout Midtown as part of the real-time traffic system Mayor Bloomberg unveiled yesterday, with ... More >>

Ray Kelly, Police Commissioner, Where Are the Results of That Review on the Crime Statistics?

​In January, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly promised to release the results of what he called an independent examination of the city's crime statistics. He said the effort by three former federal prosecutors would take six months. Well, it's been exactly six months, and still no word from ... More >>

Ray Kelly, NYPD Commissioner, Loves a Good Tie, Hoodie

​Today's edition of Women's Wear Daily profiles the style of a somewhat unlikely fashion character, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. On a night out on the East River, Kelly sports "a charcoal Martin Greenfield hand-tailored suit" with a "Charvet tie, so pink it practically reflects the faraway P ... More >>

James Stafford and Brice Farrell Attempt 3 a.m. Climb of Williamsburg Bridge, Are Busted

​It happens with some regularity. Someone calling himself an "urban explorer" will attempt to climb a New York City bridge under cover of night -- or, more obviously, in broad daylight -- to explore "urbanly," and to capture it in film and/or photographs. This happened last night. Our culprits ... More >>

Beware: Ray Kelly for Next FBI Director?

Read the Voice, Get High

​Today in unexpected uses for the Village Voice: Drug mule! (Sort of.) Via the New York Post, we've learned that two "drug dealerships" offering pot and "low-cost but high-grade cocaine" left their business cards in Voice issues distributed in the East Village and the Lower East Side. This see ... More >>

Ray Kelly Appoints Former Federal Prosecutors to Investigate Crime Stats

​In even more fallout from the Village Voice's "NYPD Tapes" series, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly has now appointed a committee of three former federal prosecutors to investigate whether crime stats are being manipulated. The move, reported by the Associated Press, appears to be the lates ... More >>

Ray Kelly, Hounded by Voice Revelations, To Revamp NYPD Handling of Sex Crime Complaints

​Eight months after the Voice's NYPD Tapes series began revealing widespread manipulation of crime statistics — including the downgrading of rape complaints that in at least one case allowed a predator to continue his assaults — a commission appointed by Police Commissioner Ray Kel ... More >>

Ray Kelly to NYPD Cops: No More Loitering Arrests

​Police Commissioner Ray Kelly issued an order this week telling cops that they can't arrest people for loitering anymore. The loitering statute was actually struck down way back in 1983 by a federal judge, whose opinion was bolstered by subsequent rulings which found the law unconstitutional ... More >>

Ray Kelly's Publicity Piggy Bank: The Police Foundation

​In what is a fairly shocking disclosure, Leonard Levitt's NYPD Confidential reports today that the Police Foundation has spent $400,000 on a publicist who spent most of his time flacking for Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and introducing him to celebrities and rich folks and get onto that red ... More >>

Ray Kelly's Harvard Club Membership Fees, Food Paid by Non-Profit Police Foundation (Updated)

​Police Commissioner Ray Kelly gets his annual $1,500 membership dues at the fancy Harvard Club paid for by the non-profit Police Foundation, Leonard Levitt's blog One Police Plaza Confidential is reporting. That alone is fairly controversial because regular street cops, as Levitt notes, aren ... More >>